Primary elections and caucuses and the Democratic and Republican Presidential conventions
The primary election was introduced during the Jacksonian era.
A primary, or primary election, is the election in which voters decide which of the candidates within a party will represent the party in the general election. So basically, when people vote on who will run for the democrats during the presidential election, it's a primary election. Voting on the actual president would be the general election.
At their respective conventions during the primary portion of the election year.
If there is no majority in a presidential election, the election moves to the newly elected house of Representatives who vote on the top 3 contestants.
Ron Paul
The South Carolina primary is typically held in late February during presidential election years. For the 2024 election cycle, it is scheduled for February 24, 2024. This primary is significant as it often serves as an early indicator of candidate support in the southern United States.
In the US, a Presidential election occurs during a general election on the second Tuesday in November.
Herbert Hoover won the 1928 presidential election defeating Alfred Smith.
Gerald Ford lost the 1976 presidential election to Jimmy Carter.
Both are indications of the voters choice of a candidate; however, at an election the campaigning occurs prior to the election and at a cacus there is much fanfare and types of lobbying during an at the voting. There are no rules of staying certain distances from the voting places. I think of a cacus as a type of "free-for-all" voting party!
The president's election that marked the end of Reconstruction was Rutherford Hayes. It was during the Presidential Election of 1876.